Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli

Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli Hommage (2000) (15 CDs Box Set)

Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli Hommage (2000) (15 CDs Box Set)
EAC Rip | FLAC (Image+.cue, log) | 15 CDs, 15:22:09 min | 3,15 Gb | Scans->5 mb
Genre: Classical / Label: Aura Music

Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli (1920-1995) mastered the art of being elusive. During his long career the legendary Italian pianist’s forays into the recording studio were few and far between. The concerts and broadcast performances he didn’t cancel, though, sometimes found their way onto pirated discs. This allowed pianophiles to gain a fuller dimension of their puzzling, ultra-perfectionist hero.
Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli - Complete Recordings on Deutsche Grammophon (2016)

Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli - Complete Recordings on Deutsche Grammophon (2016)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks, log) - 2.3 GB
11:08:11 | Classical | Label: Deutsche Grammophon

In this edition Deutsche Grammophon brings together for the first time all the performances by pianist Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli that have appeared on the "Yellow Label" as well as the legendary early recordings of Beethoven and Scarlatti made for DECCA. Excellent documentation includes numerous rare photographs and a new appreciation of the enigmatic pianist by DG producer, conductor and longtime Michelangeli collaborator Cord Garben. Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli was one of this century's most outstanding pianists. –Gramophone
Michelangeli opened my ears, and showed me what a truly great pianist can deliver. He played Debussy's Images and Children's Corner, and I can still hear almost every note. He was devastatingly impressive. –Christian Zacharias, BBC Music Magazine
Michelangeli focuses and clarifies with every miraculous stroke of the keys, etching these miniatures in pristine colours, his meticulous technique bathing each scene in brilliant sunshine. –BBC Music Magazine on DEBUSSY Préludes Book 1
Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli plays Beethoven, Galuppi and D. Scarlatti (2005/1962)

Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli plays Beethoven, Galuppi and D. Scarlatti (2005/1962)
NTSC 4:3 (720x480) VBR | (LinearPCM, 2 ch) | 4,31 Gb (DVD5) | 84 min
Classical | Opus Arte

The legendary Italian pianist Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli (1920 - 1995), playing at the height of his powers, performs two Beethoven sonatas in an historic recording now digitally restored and re-mastered. He also plays earlier sonatas by Scarlatti and Galuppi. Michelangeli's fine control and perfect clarity - always present in his playing - have positioned him as one of the most outstanding recording artists of any generation.
Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli - Ravel: Gaspard de la Nuit, Piano Concerto; Debussy: Children's Corner (2012)

Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli - Ravel: Gaspard de la Nuit, Piano Concerto; Debussy: Children's Corner (2012)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 305 Mb | Total time: 73:04 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Praga Digitals | PRD/DSD 350 091 | Recorded: 1952, 1958, 1960

A tribute to Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, a veritable mythic and unpredictable Italian pianist,; a perfectionist with a carefully chosen repertory in which Scarlatti's works joined those of Debussy and Ravel, while the great German romantics, from Beethoven to Brahms, were magnified and exalted, showing the soundness of their construction. The number of his recordings is limited, with mostly works by Debussy and Ravel and a few by Beethoven. He used to buy pirate live discs of his concerts as presents for his friends instead of his 'official' recordings! Here is a French anthology collecting legendary renderings of his inimitable touch easy to recognise by its ductile nature and the purity of his style. A revived masterpiece.
Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli - Beethoven: Sonata No.32, Op.111; Galuppi, Scarlatti (1986)

Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli - Beethoven: Sonata No.32, Op.111; Galuppi, Scarlatti (1986)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 189 Mb | Total time: 49:50 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Decca | # 417 772-2 | Recorded: 1965

Considered one of the greatest pianists of the 20th century, Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli (1920-1995) nevertheless left only a small body of recordings due to his perfectionism. Nor did he give live concerts often, frequently canceling them at the last minute for flimsy reasons. Still, his playing was prized for its clarity, directness, and unique interpretations.
Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, Václav Smetáček, Evgeny Mravinsky - Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 5, Symphony No. 4 (2004)

Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, Václav Smetáček, Evgeny Mravinsky - Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 5, Symphony No. 4 (2004)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 352 Mb | Total time: 71:12 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Praga | # PR 50021 | Recorded: 1955, 1957

If you take it for granted that Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli was the greatest pianist of the twentieth century and that his performances of Beethoven's "Emperor" Concerto were the greatest of the twentieth century, then you'll probably want to pick up this disc containing Michelangeli's fabled May 29, 1957, performance in Prague with Vaclav Smetacek and the Prague Symphony Orchestra. Although Smetacek is not the deepest, the greatest, or the most sympathetic accompanist Michelangeli ever had, and although the Prague players are not always quite on their best behavior, Michelangeli is as he always is in this work: absolutely definite.
Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli - The London Recordings, Vol. 1 (Remastered) (2023)

Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli - The London Recordings, Vol. 1 (Remastered) (2023)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) - 390 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 203 Mb | 01:28:30
Classical | Label: The Lost Recordings

These recordings were unearthed from the BBC archives. All the restoration work has been done from the original analog tapes. The works presented here are from a historic session in the London studios on June 30, 1959.
Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli - Debussy: Images 1 & 2; Children's Corner (1971/2020)

Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli - Debussy: Images 1 & 2; Children's Corner (1971/2020)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 191 MB | Tracks: 12 | 44:52 min
Style: Classical | Label: Deutsche Grammophon

There are recordings which are so obvious that any criticism seems useless, not to say futile. What else can be said about this meeting between a composer and his performer? That Benedetti-Michelangeli's piano is crystalline, pyrotechnic, that his keyboard seems to be adorned with all the most minute nuances of color? No inappropriate mannerisms, points of languor "at the beginning of the century", but a simplicity of expression which makes Debussy a Western brother of the authors of Japanese haikus
Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli - The Art Of Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli (DG Collectors Edition) (2003)

Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli - The Art Of Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli (DG Collectors Edition)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks)+cue, log, m3u, artwork | 543:29 min | 2.05 GB
Label: Deutsche Grammophon ‎– 469 820-2 | Tracks: 111 | Rls.date: 2003
Classical, Romantic

This is the best – the noblest, the grandest, the most tragic – Ballade in G minor ever recorded. This is the best – the most virtuostic, the most colorful, the most imaginative – set of Book I Preludes ever recorded. This is the best – the most Romantic, the most heartfelt, the funniest – Carnaval ever recorded. This is the best – the most elegant, the most witty, the most athletic – recording of Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 1 ever recorded. This is the best – the most brooding, the most violent, the most consoling – set of Brahms Ballades ever recorded. This is the best – the most loving, the most awe-inspiring, the most transcendent – "Emperor" Concerto ever recorded. This is the best – the subtlest, the most sorrowful, the most sublime – set of Chopin mazurkas ever recorded. And on and on and on.
Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli - The Art Of Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli (8 CDs, 2003)

Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli - The Art Of Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli (8 CDs, 2003)
MP3 320 kbps | 8CDs, 09:23:25 min | 1 Gb | Scans -> 23 mb
Genre: Classical / Label: Deutsche Grammophon

This is the best – the noblest, the grandest, the most tragic – Ballade in G minor ever recorded. This is the best – the most virtuostic, the most colorful, the most imaginative – set of Book I Preludes ever recorded. This is the best – the most Romantic, the most heartfelt, the funniest – Carnaval ever recorded. This is the best – the most elegant, the most witty, the most athletic – recording of Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 1 ever recorded.